Category: quotes

Reading about God’s invitation to rest is also an invitation to a good – healthy theology of work in this chapter from Invitations from God by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun “He didn’t intend for work to be the way people form identities or find favor with God. Work was to be an expression of who human…

My feelings are important for many things. They are essential and valuable. They keep me aware of much that is true and real. But they tell me next to nothing about God or my relation to God. My security comes from who God is, not from how I feel. Discipleship is a decision to live…

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshiped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. Feelings are important but completely unreliable in matters of faith. Paul Scherer is laconic: “the Bible wastes very little time on the way we feel.” We live in what one writer has called the “age of…

i’ve logged in a few times. but i have too many things and yet a shortage of things to say all at the same time. i want to tell you everything about what’s going on. but i’m in the middle of a very steep learning curve and it’s a little tricky. so this is my…

Excerpt from Sacred Singleness by Leslie Ludy: Rather than listening to advice and messages that breed discontentment with singleness, the best way to shed the “stigma” of being single is to joyfully and willingly receive it as the gift and opportunity that it is – becoming fully yielded to God, fully trusting that He can…

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptations. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc. don’t get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children…

“We are not sanctified for ourselves. The first thing God does is get us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through these doorways God is opening up…

When you’re waiting, you’re NOT doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, … … … you can’t become what God created you to be. from Relevant Magazine.

This is my theme right now. Such an unpopular concept these days, to wait on the Lord, rest in His arms, in His lap, and not move until he tells me to move. This is me, this is where I am right now. Sit still, my daughter! Just sit calmly still! Nor deem these days—these…